The government of Indonesia is currently planning to develop a cloud storage infrastructure. Considering its credible security and data protection, the government intends to utilize the storage to keep governmental documents safe.
Semuel Pangerapan, the directorate-general for information applications at the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology, disclosed the plan. According to him, the plan is scheduled to begin in the approaching 2020.
However, he did not mention who will be the one(s) responsible for designing the infrastructure. In addition, the only details leaked are about the prediction of future use, which will likely occur in 2022.
“Governmental digital data must be placed on the Indonesia cloud. The government is about to establish it soon. According to the schedule, it will be available for use in 2022,” said Semuel.
To ascertain the infrastructure’s security, the government will categorize the data and encrypt the data numerous times. Given that the project will cost a lot, the government chooses to keep the investment cost a secret.
“The government owns and manages the cloud. Confidential data and public services are in line with the Presidential Decree regarding the digital-based government.”
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The Penetration of Cloud Storage in Indonesia
The penetration of cloud technology in Indonesia is considerably rapid. This is so thanks to a massive number of residents that start to be internet literates and the emergence of start-ups that use the service.
For instance, Google Cloud is among the popular cloud services growing in Indonesia. Tim Synan, the head of Google Cloud for Southeast Asia, mentioned that Indonesia has become one of Google’s most important digital markets.
Reflecting upon the considerable feat, this has made Google decides to build a cloud server in Jakarta. In other words, this will be a new Google Cloud Region for Indonesia and nearby, and the center is Jakarta.
This enables nearby users to get low latency but high performance. The news is sound for users, especially start-ups which skyrocket in number, particularly in Jakarta.
While Google is currently working on it, the server will be ready roughly in the first semester of 2020.
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